Classic Science Fiction, particularly in the second half of the twentieth century, has with increasing subtlety becoming science fact. More than 30 years ago english writer Bryan Aldiss, presented us with "Greybeard", a novel about a world without fertile humans. Then, almost ten years ago another Oxford based novelist, P. D. James, took time off from writing her popular crime stories, to warn us about the folly of ignoring the consequences of technological progress, in a scary novel titled "The Children of Men". Set in 2021 James' narrator wonders why no one in the late twentieth century suggested that human fertility was dramatically changing. "When Omega came, it came with dramatic suddenness and was received with incredulity. Overnight, it seemed, the human race had lost its power to breed."
   Now a non - fiction book is re - telling the story, this time for real. Theo Colborn, a 72 year zoologist with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), has presented evidence in the book Our Stolen Future, that man made chemicals are threatening the fertility, intelligence and survival of the Human species. Human males, Colborn insists, will probably become infertile by the middle of this century, if a ban on the chemicals known to disrupt the endocrine (hormone producing) system, is not implemented as soon as soon as possible. She estimates that as much as 500 measurable chemicals are now present in our bodies. As she puts in her book they're here, there and everywhere, even in the bodies of Eskimos in arctic regions where there is no polluting industry. Despite the book's potential prophecy of doom, Colborn believes that everything will be OK. "I don't think we're facing such a scenario because there are industrialists out there with a conscience and they will make the right decisions."
   She may be an eminent scientist and one very knowledgeable in her field, but politically she is hopelessly naive.

   THREATS TO HEALTH

   TACKLING THE CRISIS

   Everything on Earth, the air, the water, each plant, each and every animal, (including the animal called Human), the Chemical Cocktail contaminates all.

   It is said in an ironic tone of voice by some enlightened, cynical scientists, that today we live inside a giant, man made laboratory. Live through a giant mindless experiment. A lot of ingredients are recklessly thrown in and we don’t dare imagine the result. Most of these ingredients are poisons, used in some misunderstood notion, to protect humanity from the stated harsh environment Nature offers.
   About two years ago there were several works published where the writers were very aware of this and similar subjects. Including articles published in Nature And a book aptly entitled Our Stolen Future. Complementing former published books on the subject, among them a book even more aptly called Silent Spring, written in the early sixties. There were some initial uproar as some attention was paid to the presented information, but typically, as always, the public interest quickly faded.
   The articles, book and studies dealt with the effect long term influence of environmental estrogens have on human flesh and also, ultimately, on human behavior.
   Basically, it goes like this:
   We start life as female. All of us. Then the natural influx of testosterone in male fetuses change them in the way predetermined by the genetic code. This development are hampered and sometimes reversed by influence of a special kind of pollutants ever more often called environmental estrogens. It may cause children which are «meant to be» male, to be born female. A simple chromosome screening determines that the child who looks like and is a girl in all outward ways, is «supposed to be» male. In others, not so extreme cases, it causes changes in the hormone release and early changes in the brain, making us more docile, less wild. More likely to accept what’s being done to us. In fact if I were most people I would have questioned every, single decision I’ve ever done, especially those who concern obedience toward authorities. I’m not suggesting that all sheep mentality has a chemical cause, far from it, only that it contributes to it.
   Females by the way, are not much better off, if at all. One of the more pronounced effects of the unnatural, chemical society we’re born into, are an enormous increase in cancer, especially brain tumors among children seems to have exploded in recent years.
   Besides, there are chemicals that make females grow male organs, among them a compound of ship paint.
   It has always been claimed and assumed by those in power that environmental estrogens are a much weaker agent than those naturally produced by the body. This is true, as far as it goes.
   One «environmental» estrogen is exactly as weak and inactive as was supposed. The dramatic change comes into effect, when there is present a mix of agents, a chemical «cocktail» of estrogenic and other pollutants. When two or more in itself «weaker» chemicals are influencing an individual, their sum of the parts are far more potent and far more dangerous than each single ingredient should indicate. And as usual humanity as a whole remain clueless.